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ArticleBiophysical journal2020

An Open-Source Mesh Generation Platform for Biophysical Modeling Using Realistic Cellular Geometries.

Christopher T Lee, Justin G Laughlin, John B Moody, Rommie E Amaro, J Andrew McCammon, Michael Holst, Padmini Rangamani

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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7 authors.

Christopher T LeeDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California. Electronic address: ctlee@ucsd.edu.
Justin G LaughlinDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.
John B MoodyDepartment of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.
Rommie E AmaroDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.
J Andrew McCammonDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.
Michael HolstDepartment of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.
Padmini RangamaniDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California. Electronic address: prangamani@ucsd.edu.

Funding

National Biomedical Computation Resource - Competitive Revision SupplementP41GM103426 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI AMARO, ROMMIE E · 2012 to 2019
$14.0M
THEORY OF BIOMOLECULAR DIFFUSIONR01GM031749 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON · PI HUBER, GARY ALEXANDER, MCCAMMON, JAMES ANDREW · 1985 to 2022
$7.8M
MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM008326 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI KOMIVES, ELIZABETH A. · 1989 to 2020
$7.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103426NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM031749NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008326
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Advances in imaging methods such as electron microscopy, tomography, and other modalities are enabling high-resolution reconstructions of cellular and organelle geometries. Such advances pave the way for using these geometries for biophysical and mathematical modeling once these data can be represented as a geometric mesh, which, when carefully conditioned, enables the discretization and solution of partial differential equations. In this work, we outline the steps for a naïve user to approach the Geometry-preserving Adaptive MeshER software version 2, a mesh generation code written in C++ designed to convert structural data sets to realistic geometric meshes while preserving the underlying shapes. We present two example cases: 1) mesh generation at the subcellular scale as informed by electron tomography and 2) meshing a protein with a structure from x-ray crystallography. We further demonstrate that the meshes generated by the Geometry-preserving Adaptive MeshER software are suitable for use with numerical methods. Together, this collection of libraries and tools simplifies the process of constructing realistic geometric meshes from structural biology data.

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Models, TheoreticalSoftwareAlgorithmsBiophysicsComputer Simulation

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PMID32032503
PMCPMC7063475

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